maxim wexler wrote: >Hello everybody, > >Imagine my relief and joy when the boot process sailed >past the point of no return and dropped me into my new >gentoo environment on a heretofore unreachable SATA >partition. > >What I did was, after chrooting to it, I ran pon then >emerge --sync && emerge -Du system && emerge -Du >gentoo-sources. Phew! 24 hours -- no phone! > >I'm now using the 2.6.14-r4 kernel. As opposed to the >*r2 which didn't seem to work > >--the bad news > >Using my grub floppy I can get in but PPP balks at: >... >pppd: Serial connection established >pppd: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid >argument. >... >and it hangs up. > >The only thing that's changed is that I've modularized >the PPP drivers and have to modprobe them. But all the >config files: resolv, secrets etc are the same as >before when I would boot the LiveCD, mount and chroot >to the SATA partition /dev/sda6 which held my >fully(except for the booting part) functioning OS, and >from where the web was accessible via pon and PPP. > >So I'm still stuck as far as using web is concerned >with the OS on my IDE drive where pon also works a la >sudo. > >Here's grep "=[ym]" for the new kernel in case some >sharp-eyed soul might see the source of my difficulty. >Or even of my triumph over non-bootingness since at >best I was making educated guesses about what works >and what doesn't :) > > Well, I don't know about everybody else but I compile my ppp stuff in my kernel. pon and poff works fine here. May be worth a shot.
This is how my config looks: > <*> PPP (point-to-point protocol) support > [ ] PPP multilink support (EXPERIMENTAL) > [*] PPP filtering > <*> PPP support for async serial ports > <*> PPP support for sync tty ports > <*> PPP Deflate compression > <*> PPP BSD-Compress compression That is from the config screen itself, not the .config file. Dale :-) -- To err is human, I'm most certainly human. I have four rigs: 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 128MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. All run Gentoo, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
